Tender Writer

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced highly skilled Tender Writer to join our team.

You will manage the bid process from start to finish, assessing and filtering new business leads and working collaboratively with other departments to produce excellent tender responses.

Responsibilities also include:

• Compiling and maintaining a library of materials for tender responses
• Maintaining a detailed calendar of tender activity
• Reporting regularly on tender activity
• Ensuring that tenders include realistic pricing structures
• Managing and coordinating all stages of pre-qualifications, tenders and major proposals
• Managing the preparation of detailed costing and pricing options and assessing the resource requirements for our pre qualification and tender activity
• Managing and organising the bid submissions and proposals from initial enquiry to tender submission
• Identifying and delivering winning strategies for tenders
• Leading teams in the preparation of successful pre-qualification activities
• Defining and understanding complex digital solutions
• Advising on contracting policies and procedures including maintaining a contracts database and summarising contracts
• Working closely with marketing to ensure all tender documentation is on brand.

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate proven successful experience in similar role (in a corporate and/or public sector environment)
• Be used to working in a fast-moving environment where ability to deliver is paramount
• Have high level communication and organisational skills
• Demonstrate superior attention to detail
• Have written tenders and proposals for projects with minimum values of £250K
• Have experience of costing and pricing strategies and demonstrable financial awareness
• Be experienced in the writing of compelling commercial and technical proposals
• Be a logical thinker with good commercial understanding of risk assessment
• Have a sound knowledge of standard legal clauses and the ability to analyse the implications of possible scenarios
• Have experience of negotiating for a win-win outcome.

As well as competitive rates of pay, we also offer:

• Working for a progressive and fast growing company
• Training opportunities and personal development
• Working with some of the UK's top blue chip and government organisations
• Contributory pension scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Generous holiday allowance
• Childcare voucher scheme
• Good social scene and events.

Redweb is an equal opportunities employer.